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We Are Still British
This is not the installment I was planning to publish today, but no historian of the British Atlantic could let this moment pass without interrupting…
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The Old, the New, and Skinning Cats
Musings from the Battleship
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Book release week...
Doing it a little differently today...
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But what does it do?
Last night we were watching Animal Homes; a woodrat (“pack rat”) was adding found objects to its impressively-large nest in the forest.
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The Cookie Canister
My parents moved to a “senior living community” several weeks ago.
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A moment in time or the passage of time?
Snapshot or storyline?
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Microhistory
What if your ninety-two-year-old mom died, and you were cleaning out her attic, and you found one of those old round birth-control-pill dispensers with…
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Death—long view
Note: this is not a history-of-technology piece
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We made that!
Doing anything to my car makes me nervous.
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Rot
This is not the piece I meant to put out this weekend.
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Relics
We read so many comments on the accelerating pace of technological change that it becomes background noise.
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Retro
One of the baddest dragons historians of technology had to slay was “form follows function,” the best-known articulation of modern technological…
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